r/Firefighting • u/TigerBack56 • 7d ago

General Discussion Whats your departments dumbest/strangest policy?

So i come from a military background and I know how stupid some policies can be. Our department has a few i can think of but I wanted to here from the community, what is your departments dumbest/strangest legitimate policy?

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u/Golfandrun 7d ago

Our departments policy is that no vehicle may exceed the posted speed even when responding code 1.

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u/collude Engine company LT 7d ago

We have the same policy but it's universally ignored.

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u/Golfandrun 7d ago

All our vehicles have tracking. I once got a notification for doing 100kph on a 1 mile long bridge at 3 in the morning on my way to a structure fire with possible persons trapped. I was driving my police special SUV.

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u/username67432 6d ago

Well you were driving metric on an imperial roadway I see the problem.